Genetic analysis of song dialect populations in Puget Sound white-crowned sparrows |
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Authors: | Soha, Jill A. Nelson, Douglas A. Parker, Patricia G. |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; b Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 63121, USA |
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Abstract: | The relationship between cultural variation and biological variationamong natural populations has been the subject of both theoreticaland empirical study. Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis is oneof three subspecies of white-crowned sparrow known to form geographicalsong dialects. We investigated whether these dialects correspondto genetic differences among Z. l. pugetensis populations. Wecompared allele frequencies at four microsatellite loci in malesfrom 11 sites spanning six dialects over the subspecies' rangein Oregon and Washington. Cluster analysis and genotype assignmenttests indicated no tendency for sample sites within dialectareas to be genetically more similar than are sites from differentdialect areas. AMOVA tests revealed high within-site variationand low but significant cross-site and cross-dialect-area variation.Finally, genetic distance between sites was not correlated withdialect differences when the effect of geographic distance wascontrolled statistically. We compare our finding of low geneticdifferentiation among Z. l. pugetensis dialect populations toresults of previous studies on Z. l. nuttalli and Z. l. oriantha.Because genetic structuring appears weaker than cultural (songdialect) structure in this species, we discuss the behavioralmechanisms underlying dialect maintenance in the presence ofapparent gene flow. |
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Keywords: | birdsong cultural evolution geographic variation microsatellites Zonotrichia leucophrys pugetensis. |
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